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adam ryder

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I have 2 harddrives. A 500 GB and 160 GB and both are sata and both are full.I also have a extra sata harddrive that's 160 GB. My pc can only take 2 sata cables and only one ide cable but the ide cable has two ports. one port is being used by my dvd drive.but I still have one port extra. Is there anyway I can connect the sata harddrive to the ide cable.thanx for any help
 
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there are ways to connect the sata to the ide port using an adapter, but i dont recommend it. Sata harddrives do use the bandwith of SATA ports so i'd recommend getting a bigger drive, say a terabyte and replacing the smallest serial ata drive you have. Western Digital Black 1TB drives are a reasonalbe price and come with a 5 year warranty.
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there are ways to connect the sata to the ide port using an adapter, but i dont recommend it. Sata harddrives do use the bandwith of SATA ports so i'd recommend getting a bigger drive, say a terabyte and replacing the smallest serial ata drive you have. Western Digital Black 1TB drives are a reasonalbe price and come with a 5 year warranty.
 
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Yes, you will need an IDE to SATA adapter but why the hell would you put SATA drive on an IDE cable is beyond me.

You may as well buy a PCI SATA expansion card and connect the sata drive to it. It will add more SATA ports to your computer depending on the card and be faster than IDE.
 
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